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Reading for Canadian preparing for NYC Biglaw next summer
Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2015 10:32 am
by stupidcool
Coming from Ontario, Canada. I have pretty much no exposure to US corporate law (completing the acronym SEC pretty much exhausts my knowledge on the subject). I'm going into the corporate group at my firm.
What would you do to prepare in order to "hit the ground running"?
Read the WSJ every morning? Any particular textbooks to order on Amazon?
Re: Reading for Canadian preparing for NYC Biglaw next summer
Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2015 11:15 am
by BrazilBandit
stupidcool wrote:Coming from Ontario, Canada. I have pretty much no exposure to US corporate law (completing the acronym SEC pretty much exhausts my knowledge on the subject). I'm going into the corporate group at my firm.
What would you do to prepare in order to "hit the ground running"?
Read the WSJ every morning? Any particular textbooks to order on Amazon?
1. Watch Bloomberg
2. Read Michael Lewis' The Big Short
3. Watch (or read Sorkin's book) Too Big to Fail
Re: Reading for Canadian preparing for NYC Biglaw next summer
Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2015 6:55 am
by Anonymous User
1) Read WSJ headlines
2) Read NYT Dealbook, especially back-columns of Deal Professor
3) Subscribe to Fortune Term Sheet (it's an email newsletter delivered daily)
4) Subscribe to Matt Levine's column at Bloomberg Business (also daily email).
Read a book like "Acing M&A" and make sure you understand really basic US corporate law, like how to incorporate (file a charter/certificate of incorporation/articles of incorporation with a state), what fiduciary duty is.
I would also read the E&E on Securities Regulation.
Work with your school library to understand how to do basic U.S. corporate research - find public filings on EDGAR, etc.